Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preface -- Introduction -- Getting to know you -- The R words -- European land claims -- Putting our own house in order -- The family of nations -- False reconciliation -- Standing our ground -- Re-envisioning Canada -- Letters to friends and enemies -- Afterword.

Preface: Speech at the Funeral of Arthur Manuel / Naomi Klein -- Introduction: Our Struggle / Grand Chief Ronald Derrickson -- PART 1: GETTING TO KNOW YOU -- 1. The Second Coming -- 2. Beginning at the Beginning -- 3. White Supremacy - the Law of the Land -- 4. From Dispossession to Dependency -- 5. From Dependency to Oppression -- PART 2: THE R WORDS -- 6. The Race Question -- 7. Reserves as Holding Pens -- PART 3: EUROPEAN LAND CLAIMS -- 8. We Stole it Fair and Square -- 9. Attempted Genocide: Political Battles with Pierre Trudeau -- 10. Changing Legal and Policy Landscape - 1984-2014 -- 11. Tsilhqot'in Case and Crown Title -- 12. British Columbia Commission Treaty Process -- 13. Rightful Title Holders -- 14. Risk and Uncertainty -- 15. Revenge of the Balance Sheet -- PART 4: PUTTING OUR OWN HOUSE IN ORDER -- 16. Neocolonialism, or Selling Our Birthright -- 17. Where Have the Leaders Gone? -- 18. Around the Mulberry Bush -- 19. The Grassroots Struggle: Defenders of the Land and Idle No More -- 20. Unity Around a Strong Position -- PART 5: THE FAMILY OF NATIONS -- 21. The International Stage -- 22. Constitutional Deadlock and the International Option -- 23. What the UN says about Self-Determination -- 24. Canada's Human Rights Treaties -- 25. CERD: Early Warning and Urgent Action -- 26. International Recognition of Our Proprietary Rights -- 27. UNDRIP and the Trudeau Betrayal -- PART 6: FALSE RECONCILIATION -- 28. The Reconciliation SWAT Team -- 29. Reconciliation Framework Agreements -- PART 7: STANDING OUR GROUND -- 30. Defending Our Land -- 31. The Legal Billy Club -- 32. Blockading a Mine -- 33. Criminalization of Protest -- 34. Non-violence, but not Passive Acceptance -- 35. Resisting the Carbon Bomb -- 36. Defending Mother Earth -- 37. The Long-Term Approach -- 38. Declaring Sovereignty on the Ground -- 39. Standing With Standing Rock -- 40. Death of a Warrior -- PART 8: RE-ENVISIONING CANADA -- 41. Our Inalienable Rights -- 42. Back to the Future -- 43. The Six-Step Program to Decolonization -- LETTERS TO FRIENDS AND ENEMIES -- 1. Open Letter to Pope Francis -- 2. Open Letter to the Secretary-General of the United Nations -- 3. Open Letter to the Queen of Canada -- 4. Open Letter to the Chief Justice of Canada -- 5. Open Letter to the Defenders of the Land -- Afterword: Settling with Canada: A Debt Coming Due / Grand Chief Ronald Derrickson -- Appendix: "Are you a Canadian?"